On 03 November 2021, the Equitable Cambodia issued a press release on ANZ payment to displaced Cambodian families brings landmark human rights case to a close.Cambodian families who were forcibly displaced by Phnom Penh sugar Company have received a promised payment from Australia’s ANZ bank, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Minister of Economy and Finance’s General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected 11.402100 trillion riel ($2.781 billion) in tax revenue in 2021, 24% more than the plan of $538 million. However, this revenue is slightly less when compared to the same period of year 2020 ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 27 May 2022, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training issued a notification on the opening of allowances (82th) under social protection program in Cambodia.The government will open the allowances (82th) under social protection program to a total of 988 workers in 15 enterprises ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Manet said last saturday that he along with the top officials from public and private sector institutions promoted various sectors of Cambodia’s economy during 18 bilateral and multilateral meetings out of the 34 on-the-sidelines meetings during the 43rd AsEAN summit and Related ss='cambodia-color'>...

The nearly 160 per cent surge in investment capital behind a slew of new large-scale investment projects outside of Cambodia’s special economic zones (sEZ) reported for the first half of 2022 has fanned optimism for a boom in production and exports – underpinned by favourable ss='cambodia-color'>...

South Korean-owned SPHP (Cambodia) Co Ltd&rSquo;S under-conStruction $231 million, 80 megawatt (MW) Stung PurSat I hydropower dam iS Scheduled to be commiSSioned and operational in 2026, according to PurSat provincial governor Khoy Rida. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The value of Cambodia’s total goods exports in the first half of the year reached $11.464 billion, up more than 0.75 per cent on an annual basis from $11.379 billion and up nearly 3.25 per cent from $11.104 billion in the second half of 2022, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thor Chetha, Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology, highlighted the Ministry’s priority of strengthening the forecasting system, early warning system, and early warning to vulnerable people to be vigilant as needed to reduce natural disasters and economic losses, and urged the Asian Development Bank to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Small and Medium EnterpriSe Bank of Cambodia Plc. (SME Bank), loan termS for touriSm vendorS in Siem Reap Province will be looSened from the beginning of 2024 to encourage more uptake of fundS excluSively by Siem Reap-baSed entitieS to bolSter the Sector&rSquo;S return to SS='cambodia-color'>...

“Stopping corruption may Start from uS” (Khmer verSion on Clean Hand poSter), in Kratie province, Cambodia. Photo by World Bank Photo Collection, taken on November 22, 2006. LicenSed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0In Cambodia, the activitieS of buying goodS, conStruction work, repairS, and ServiceS and conSultation SS='cambodia-color'>...

Election monitors say a test of election ink that found it easily washable, and therefore a concern for fraudulent voting, was made in the spirit of transparency, and not to create “turmoil” ahead of sunday’s polls. The election watchdog Comfrel on Friday tested the ink, provided ss='cambodia-color'>...

“These are the best quality stones,” Lat Yun says with a grin. Nestled in his outstretched hand are three unassuming rocks. “I don’t know what they’re called, I just know they’re the best.” The gemstones of Ratanakkiri are a mineral called zircon, but in Cambodia, they ss='cambodia-color'>...

The judiciary has signed off on a new set of guidelines designed to regulate the work of prosecutors in many areas, including the rights of minors in the judicial system. Ouk savuth, general director of the Court of Appeal, signed off on the guidelines on August ss='cambodia-color'>...

Law and order in Cambodia this year has been a strange mix of the brutal and the bizarre. From horrific murders to the police’s decision to deliver crystal meth to phony hostage-takers during a bank heist, crime has continually made headlines in a year when the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two years after Prime Minister Hun sen broke ground on a Chinese-funded project to widen National Road 6a in order to expand its capacity as a major trade and tourism thoroughfare, life for the tens of thousands of families living along the 50-km stretch of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government reforested 80,693 hectares of land between 2008 and 2012 as part of its efforts to combat deforestation, a recent agriculture ministry report says, but these seemingly impressive statistics were reached by counting rubber trees and other agricultural crops as adequate replacements for forests. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen’s 2012 ban on the allocation of economic land concessions was supposed to halt the unpopular practice of turning over large swaths of property to developers. And going by the numbers last year, it worked. But in the vacuum, according to local rights ss='cambodia-color'>...

SIEM PANG DISTRICT, Stung Treng province &ndaSh; For the elite few granted the right to level SwatheS of woodland in the north of thiS remote province, the timber trade iS worth a fortune. For the ForeStry AdminiStration&mdaSh;the government body charged with policing logging&mdaSh;buSineSS iS alSo booming. While SS='cambodia-color'>...

During his second day under questioning on charges of inciting violence and property damage at a January 2 protest, union leader Vorn Pao was presented with photographs showing his tuk-tuk packed with rocks, and a video of him calling on low-ranking police to turn their ss='cambodia-color'>...

While protesters demonstrated outside, urging land and human-rights reform, members of the donor community met with the government yesterday at the Council for the Development of Cambodia in Phnom Penh to sign off on a series of development targets that bore only a faint resemblance to those ss='cambodia-color'>...